Two sisters—the sickly, intellectual Ester
(Ingrid Thulin) and the sensual, pragmatic Anna (Gunnel Lindblom)—travel by
train with Anna’s young son Johan (Jorgen Lindstrom) to a foreign country
seemingly on the brink of war. Attempting to cope with their alien
surroundings, the sisters resort to their personal vices while vying for
Johan’s affection, and in so doing sabotage any hope for a future together.
Regarded as one of the most sexually provocative films of its day, Ingmar
Bergman’s The Silence offers a brilliant, disturbing vision of
emotional isolation in a suffocating spiritual void.

Like our Winter
Light comparison, the image quality here is very close. Criterion is
darker and shows more grain... but someone's ratio is off. With the
captures below of the circle in the rug, I suspect it is the Criterion.
If the Tartans have contrast boosting, it is most prevalent here. The
Criterion appears cropped on the lower edge a shade and is really quite
dark in some scenes. In this film, we are going with the Tartan version
as a recommendation for image, but of course, everything else goes
Criterions way - audio, menu, Extras. The differences are quite
negligible in the image, but purists may want to know.